The Faculty of Arts and Humanities (popularly known as UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities) is one of the
11 constituent faculties of
University College London
University College London (Trade name, branded as UCL) is a Public university, public research university in London, England. It is a Member institutions of the University of London, member institution of the Federal university, federal Uni ...
(UCL). The current Executive Dean is
Professor Stella Bruzzi, FBA.
History
In October 2013 it was announced that the Translation Studies Unit of
Imperial College London
Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...
would move to UCL, becoming part of the UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society.
Departments
The Faculty currently comprises the following departments:
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UCL Department of Arts and Sciences
*UCL Department of English Language and Literature
*UCL Department of European and International Social and Political Sciences
*UCL Department of Greek & Latin (Classics)
*UCL Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
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UCL Department of Information Studies
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UCL Department of Philosophy
*School of European Languages, Culture & Society (SELCS)
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UCL Slade School of Fine Art
*Institute of Advanced Studies
SELCS offers the widest range of language-based degrees in the UK, with programmes in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Iberian and Latin American Studies as well as cutting-edge interdisciplinary programmes in Comparative Literature, Early Modern, European, Film, Health, Gender, Race and Translation Studies.
Research
The impacts of UCL Arts & Humanities research on the wider world have been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021). The Faculty of Arts and Humanities, was ranked 6th in the UK in terms of Research Power in the REF2021.
Rankings
In the 2013 ''
QS World University Rankings
The ''QS World University Rankings'' is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm. Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with '' Times ...
'', UCL was ranked 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Arts and Humanities. In the 2014 ''QS World University Rankings by Subject'', UCL was ranked 15th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for English Language and Literature, 8th in the world (and 3rd in Europe) for Modern Languages and joint 51st-100th in the world (and joint 16th in Europe) for Philosophy. In the 2016/2017 ''
QS World University Rankings
The ''QS World University Rankings'' is a portfolio of comparative college and university rankings compiled by Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education analytics firm. Its first and earliest edition was published in collaboration with '' Times ...
'', UCL is currently ranked 7th in the world. It also holds its highest historical ranking for Arts and Humanities at 4th in the world, according to the
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', often referred to as the THE Rankings, is the annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli Symon ...
.
See also
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UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
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UCL Institute of Jewish Studies
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Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art
References
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Departments of University College London